Anybody know any big diffrences
The newer camera is fixed focus.
The new one is Shiny
I believe the Axis site still contains the user manual and other documents about the 206.
The new one is fixed focus, slightly smaller, power and reset are relocated and less likely to be an issue, viewing angle is slightly different, and the new one supports a number of additional compression methods which you likely don’t care about.
The vision analysis code can decompress JPG and MJPG, but not MP4 or others. The laptop could with new code or you could build and add your own libs to the cRIO.
Greg McKaskle
An extension of this question: Would there be any problem to run both of these on the same robot at the same time (after of course modifying the AxisCamera class as needed)?
No problem at all. Out of curiosity, is this for processing on the cRIO, or sending back to dashboard?
Greg McKaskle
It would be for sending to the dashboard. Right now though it’s all just a hypothetical (the head of our driver training is extremely prejudiced against using the camera feed to drive)
The reason I ask, is, the addition of the switch and some simple MJPG code makes it a much better experience than last year.
I will likely post an example next week that can be incorporated into a custom dashboard. If you want to forge ahead, you can get a reasonable prototype by configuring the cameras to be in the team IP range, plugging them into the switch, and on a laptop on the subnet, open up a browser window viewing a different camera in each.
Greg McKaskle